Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:54:55AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*: > > 1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive. > > 2. without internet access. > > Things I learned today - someone wants us to make a 128GB flash drive image > to have "all of Debian" on one flash > drive - see the discussion across on debian-cd. > > You want to do a custom install of Debian without internet access: if you > were doing this completely from scratch, > then I would recommend that you might want to have another machine with > internet access to make images from all the > DVD image files by using jigdo.
My company used to use apt-mirror to sync changes from Debian, and then made them available internally via Apache. We now use aptly, because we keep several versions of the Debian repo plus our own internal packages. > You can always install files in small numbers and check what you're doing: if > you don't want LibreOffice, don't > install it. Indeed. -dsr-
